The 20 highest-paying jobs for women

Some of the highest-paying jobs for women are in healthcare. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The gender wage gap is pervasive in many industries, especially those still dominated by men.

But there are some fields in which women not only make up a high percentage of the workforce, but they also earn competitive pay.

PayScale recently looked at occupations with the highest median pay for women with five to eight years of experience. To highlight jobs in which women frequently work, it included only those with at least 40% of workers who identify as women.

A number of well-paying healthcare occupations feature high concentrations of women. More than 90% of nurse practitioners and almost half of general physicians are women, for example.

8. Psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioner

They are registered nurses who perform mental health assessments, diagnose mental health disorders, prescribe psychiatric medications as indicated, facilitate talk and group therapy, and follow and manage patients over their life span.